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<BODY>All the pages can be viewed from this contents page. <p><B><u>Vancouver Real Estate Homes For Sale</u></p> <p align="left"><font face="Arial"><font color="#FF0000"><a target="_top" href="index.html"> <font size="4">Home </font></a></font><font size="4">|<a target="left" href="realtors/realtorlist.html"> </a> <font color="#FF0000"> <a target="main" href="http://www.forsalesold.com/agentlistings.asp?agentsname=Jim+&+Joyce+Williams"> Hot Listings</a></font> | <a target="left" href="real_estate_dir.htm"> 15000 MLS Homes For Sale</a> | <a target="main" href="dailyupdates.html">Be First Inline For That New Listing </a>| <a target="main" href="foreclos.html">Re/max Foreclosure's & Estate Sales</a>  | <font color="#FFFFFF"> <a target="main" href="cma/cma.htm">Selling! 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The city is named after Captain George Vancouver, an English explorer. A resident of Vancouver is called a "Vancouverite." Vancouver is part of the Greater Vancouver regional district. With a population of 2,208,300 (2005 estimate), it is the largest metropolitan area in western Canada and the Third largest in the country.The population of Vancouver proper is 583,267. Vancouver has a very ethnically diverse population: more than half of its residents have a mother tongue other than English.The city is growing rapidly, and the metropolitan population is projected to reach 2.6 million by 2020. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Vancouver real estate for sale at this link  <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/vanwsrealestate.htm"> Vancouver West Real Estate</a>. </b>Our <b> <u>Vancouver Real Estate Homes For Sale </u> includes townhouses, apartments</b>, <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99"> condos</b> , <b>detached homes, new homes and acreages</b>. <div id="globalWrapper12"> <div id="column-content12"> <div id="content12"> <div id="bodyContent12">   <p><b>West Vancouver, </b>The Municipality of West Vancouver was incorporated on March 15, 1912, after separating from the District of North Vancouver. The first municipal election was held on April 6, 1912. In November of 1938, the Lion's Gate Bridge was opened to traffic, allowing extensive growth of the semi-populated community, only previously accessible by ferry. Some homes in West Vancouver date back to the 1920s and 30s, though most of the currently existing dwellings were built in the 1970s and 80s, and mostly in British Pacific Properties' developments. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have West Vancouver real estate for sale at this link <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/westvrealestate.htm">West Vancouver</a> . </b>Our real estate  includes<b> townhouses, apartments, </b> <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99">condos</b><b> , detached homes, new homes and acreages.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </font></div> <FONT FACE="Arial"> <p> The <b>District of North Vancouver</b> is by far the larger of the two. Bounded by the Capilano river to the west, Indian Arm to the east, Burrard Inlet to the south, and the North shore Mountains to the north, it sprawls in an east-west direction across the mountain slopes, characterized by rugged terrain, frequent rain and steep and winding roadways. The District is primarily made up of single-family residential housing, with an industrial base along the shoreline of Burrard Inlet. It has more than twice the population of the City, but with a much lower population density. There is no clearly defined "downtown"; instead, a series of commercial areas such as Edgemount Villiage and Lynn Valley serve as local community hubs.    The <b>City of North Vancouver</b>, on the other hand, has a much more urban feel. Surrounded to the west, north, and east by the District, the City is home to the majority of the North Shore's high rise buildings, rental properties, and commercial operations. As with the District, there are industrial sites along the shore of Burrard Inlet, although in recent years several of these have begun to convert to residential and commercial areas. The City also has the Lonsdale Quay  public market and the northern terminal for Vancouver's Sea Bus transit ferry. Regional planners have identified the City, and specifically its Central Lonsdale and Lower Lonsdale neighborhoods, as the "downtown" of the North shore. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have North Vancouver real estate for sale at this link <b> <font color="#ffffff"> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/nvanrealestate.htm"> North Vancouver Real Estate</a></font>. </b>Our real estate  includes townhouses, apartments, <b style="COLOR: black; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #99ff99"> condos</b> , detached homes, new homes and acreages.</p> <table height="1168" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" border="0" id="table5"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" align="middle" width="760" height="1168"> <table id="table6" cellSpacing="0" cellPadding="0" width="760" align="center" border="0"> <tr> <td vAlign="top" width="640" bgColor="#ffffff"> <blockquote> <p align="left">Lower Mainland Vancouver real estate agents Jim and Joyce Williams from <i><b>REMAX Ridge Meadows </b>Realty  </i>will help you achieve your real estate goals by getting you acquainted with the  real estate market. Jim and Joyce are experienced at selling real estate  and takes great joy in seeing satisfied clients.</p> <p>As a licensed  real estate agents, Jim and Joyce able to provide you with unlimited access to all of the homes for sale on the Lower Mainland Vancouver real estate market including mls listings of residential homes, condos, townhouses, acreages and apartments no matter what real estate company they're listed with.</p> <p align="left">This means you no longer have to scour the paper for the latest real estate listings. Just let Jim and Joyce know what you're looking for and matching <a target="_blank" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/dailyupdates.html"> <b><font color="#800000"> <span style="TEXT-DECORATION: none"> real estate MLS� listings of homes for sale</span></font></b> </a>will be automatically flagged & emailed to you as soon as they hit the market! This service will help make your  real estate transaction stress free.</p> <p align="left">If you're just starting to get acquainted with what homes are for sale on the MLS market, then feel free to browse the <b> <a style="TEXT-DECORATION: none" target="_blank" href="http://mlsr.realtylink.org/mlsrframes/res_sale_form.cfm?cid=1019111"> <font color="#800000">available MLS� listings</font></a></b>. Just let Jim and Joyce know which ones you're interested in and they will send you  the full details.</p> <p align="left">Enjoy the convenience of working with  real estate agents who offers first class real estate services. With an extensive knowledge of the  real estate market, Jim and Joyce always looks forward to helping new clients. Our Service will move you.</p> <div align="center"> <center> <table id="table7" width="80%" border="0"> <tr> <td align="left" width="60%"> <p align="left"><font color="#000040"><b><u>OUR GOAL IS SIMPLE</u></b></font></p> <center> <div align="justify"> Our primary goal is simple - To do whatever it takes to be your real estate agent for life! We are  not interested in selling you one house. Instead, we want to handle all of the real estate needs for you and everyone you know, for life. The only way that we can accomplish that is by putting your needs first and exceeding your expectations. <font color="#0000ff">Our second goal is to donate  Children's Hospital from every sale  with your help.</font> </div> </center> <p align="left"><b><font color="#000000"><u>REAL ESTATE SUCCESS AND EXPERIENCE</u></font></b></p> <p align="left"><font color="#000000">We work for Re/max ridge meadows realty, located 22308 Dewdney Trunk Rd Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks to our <b>47 years of experience</b> gained from all types of markets, there is no real estate situation, problem, or question that we have not experienced.<br> <br> Our <b>achievements</b> include, RE/MAX Hall of Fame,100% Club, Executive Club, Presidents Club, Vancouver MLS Medallion Club, MLS Edmonton Million Dollar Club. We have specialized training to handle corporate referrals, internet marketing and how to obtain top value for sellers, as well as Specialized buyer training from showing homes, writing contacts, financing, inspections, title previews and analyzing buying costs. <b>Our experience and service will move you.</b></font></td> </tr> </table> </center></div> <p align="center"> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.forsalesold.com/"> <img border="0" src="logo.jpg" width="203" height="74"></a></p> <p> </p> <p><b><font FACE="Arial">Abbotsford </font></b>was incorporated in 1892. The village was named for a Maclure family friend, Harry Abbott, who was Western Superintendent of the Canadian Pacific railway. The city was incorporated in 1995, through the merging of the District of Abbotsford with the District of Matsqui.<font FACE="Arial"> Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Abbotsford real estate for sale at this link  <b><font color="#ffffff"> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/abbotsfordrealestate.htm"> Abbotsford Real Estate</a>. </font>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></font></p> <div id="globalWrapper0"> <div id="column-content0"> <div id="content0"> <div id="bodyContent0"> <font face="Arial"><b>Aldergrove</b></font> is a small town within the jurisdiction of  The Township of Langley, a municipality within Greater Vancouver. Located east Vancouver   at the southeastern edge of both Langley and Greater Vancouver, and nearby to the metropolitan area of Abbotsford BC. Aldergrove is 59 kilometers east of . It borders Abbotsford to the east and reaches south to the border between British Columbia and Washington. <font FACE="Arial">Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Abbotsford real estate for sale at this link  </font> <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/langleyerealestate.htm"> Langley Real Estate</a></b><font FACE="Arial"> <b>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p><b>Burnaby</b>, British Columbia, Canada  is the city immediately east of Vancouver. It is the third-largest city in BC by population, surpassed only by Surrey and Vancouver itself. It was incorporated in 1892 and achieved City status in 1992, one hundred years after incorporation. It is the current seat of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Burnaby real estate for sale at this link <b> <font color="#000000"> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/burnabyrealestate.htm"> Burnaby Real Estate</a> </font>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b>Chilliwack</b> is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia. It is a predominantly agricultural community . The city is surrounded by mountains and has many parks nearby such asCultus Lake and Chilliwack Lake and Provincial Park. There are many recreational opportunities in the area, including hiking, biking, camping, fishing, and golf. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Chilliwack real estate for sale at this link <b><font color="#000000"> <a href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/burnabyrealestate.htm"> www.vancouverhousehunting.com </a> </font>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b>Coquitlam </b>is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia.  . The city is surrounded by mountains and has many parks nearby . There are many recreational opportunities in the area, including hiking, biking, camping, fishing, and golf. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Coquitlam real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/coquitlamrealestate.htm"> Coquitlam Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>North Delta, British Columbia</b> is a largely middle-class bedroom community situated in the Lower Mainland, in British Columbia, Canada The community is the most populous of the three communities (North Delta, Ladner, and Tsawassen) that make up the Corporation of Delta. North Delta is home to numerous parks and recreational opportunities. Alongside North Delta is Burns Bogg, the largest raised peat urban bog in North America. As well, Watershed Park provides walking and biking trails, home to many Artesian Aquifers.. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Delta real estate for sale at this link  <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/deltarealestate.htm"> Delta Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper"> <div id="column-content"> <div id="content"> <div id="bodyContent">  <b>Fort Langley </b>The first European settlement in the lower mainland of British Columbia was in the Langley area. The Fort was built in 1827, about 50 kilometres (30 miles) from the mouth of the  Fraser River.In recent years, many of the village�s old buildings have been restored. The restorations, combined with its rural setting, access to the river and mountain vistas, and the old fort itself, make it a thriving tourist centre.Fort Langley has two museums in addition to the Fort. Outdoor recreation includes canoeing, fishing, hiking and horseback riding. Running and cycling routes and a network of trail systems are maintained by the municipality. Visitors may tour the art galleries, studios, farms and local wineries. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Fort Langley real estate for sale at this link <b>Fort <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/langleyerealestate.htm"> Langley Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><div id="globalWrapper1"> <div id="column-content1"> <div id="content1"> <div id="bodyContent1">  <p><b>Ladner</b> was created as a Fishing Village on the banks of the Fraser River. It is now part of the Municipality of  a suburb of  Vancouver.Named for one of the founding families, it developed as a center for farming and fishing. The ferry at Captain's Cove allowed for access across the river to Richmond B.C.. The George Massey Tunnel  provided a permanent connection in 1959.Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Ladner real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/ladnerealestate.htm"> Ladner Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper2"> <div id="column-content2"> <div id="content2"> <div id="bodyContent2"> The <b>Gulf Islands</b> are the islands in the Strait of Georgia between Vancouver Island and the mainland Pacific coast of British Columbia CanadaThe name "Gulf Islands" comes from "Gulf of Georgia," a historical misnomer for the Strait of Georgia.The Gulf Islands are usually divided into two groups, the southern and northern Gulf Islands. The dividing line is approximately that formed by the city of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, and the mouth of the Fraser River on the mainland. All the major islands are served by BC Ferries. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Gulf Island Real Estate real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/gulfislandealestate.htm"> Gulf Islands Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> <p>The <b>City of Langley</b> is a municipality in Greater Vancouver. It lies directly east of the municipality of Surrey. It is located south of the South Fraser River  and north of the U.S. border. The City of Langley is not to be confused with the larger Township of Langley.Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Langley Estate real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/langleyerealestate.htm"> Langley Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="globalWrapper3"> <div id="column-content3"> <div id="content3"> <div id="bodyContent3">  <p><b>Maple Ridge BC</b>  The District of Maple Ridge was incorporated 12 Seotember 1874 and is British Columbia's fifth-oldest municipality (after New Westminster, Victoria , Langley, and Chilliwack.) In the past 20 years, Maple Ridge has grown very rapidly, with a 12.5% population increase between the 1996 and 2001 censuses. The construction of new residential subdivisions has threatened many sensitive wildlife habitats as well as the District's limited agricultural land. About two-thirds of those who work outside the home commute into other suburbs or downtown Vancouver. Highlighting the trend towards a more urban attitude Maple Ridge joined the GRVD in 1995, having historically been a member of the largely rural FVRD The recently-started construction of the Golden Ears Bridge also signals growth. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Maple Ridge Real Estate real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/mapleridgerealestate.htm"> Maple Ridge Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b>Mission </b>is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia.  . The city is surrounded by mountains and has many parks nearby . There are many recreational opportunities in the area, including hiking, biking, camping, fishing, and golf. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Mission real estate for sale at this link <font color="#ffffff"><b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/missionrealestate.htm"> Mission Real Estate</a> </b> </font><b>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b>New Westminster </b>In 1859, New Westminster was selected as the first capital of the new colony of Canada by Queen Victoria, who named the city after her favourite part of London . From this naming by the Queen, the City gained its official nickname, "The Royal City". A year later it became the first City to have an elected municipal government. It became a major outfitting point for prospectors coming to the Cariboo gold rush, as all travel to the goldfield ports of Yale and Port Douglas was by steamboat or canoe up the  Fraser River. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have New Westminster real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/newwestminsterrealestate.htm"> New Westminster Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper4"> <div id="column-content4"> <div id="content4"> <div id="bodyContent4"> <b>Surrey North</b> is a federal electorial district in Britsh Columbia Canada  that has been represented in the Canadian House of Commons since 1988. It covers the northern part of Surrey. More than 46 percent of which are immigrants -- 21 percent of residents are East Indian, the second-highest concentration in Canada.Most residents are employed in the manufacturing and service sectors. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have North surrey real estate for sale at this link <b> <font color="#ffffff"> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/nsurreyrealestate.htm"> North Surrey Real Estate</a></font> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p>  </p> <div id="globalWrapper5"> <div id="column-content5"> <div id="content5"> <div id="bodyContent5"> The <b>District of North Vancouver</b> is by far the larger of the two. Bounded by the Capilano river to the west, Indian Arm to the east, Burrard Inlet to the south, and the North shore Mountains to the north, it sprawls in an east-west direction across the mountain slopes, characterized by rugged terrain, frequent rain and steep and winding roadways. The District is primarily made up of single-family residential housing, with an industrial base along the shoreline of Burrard Inlet. It has more than twice the population of the City, but with a much lower population density. There is no clearly defined "downtown"; instead, a series of commercial areas such as Edgemount Villiage and Lynn Valley serve as local community hubs.    The <b>City of North Vancouver</b>, on the other hand, has a much more urban feel. Surrounded to the west, north, and east by the District, the City is home to the majority of the North Shore's high rise buildings, rental properties, and commercial operations. As with the District, there are industrial sites along the shore of Burrard Inlet, although in recent years several of these have begun to convert to residential and commercial areas. The City also has the Lonsdale Quay  public market and the northern terminal for Vancouver's Sea Bus transit ferry. Regional planners have identified the City, and specifically its Central Lonsdale and Lower Lonsdale neighborhoods, as the "downtown" of the North shore. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have North Vancouver real estate for sale at this link <b><font color="#ffffff"><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/nvanrealestate.htm">North Vancouver Real Estate</a> </font>homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p><b>Pitt Meadows</b> is a District Municipality in southwestern British Columbia Canada However, it will become a city from a district as of 1st January 2007. Pitt Meadows is part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District. Pitt Meadows is a largely flood plain town, sandwiched between the Pitt River on the west and Maple Ridge  on the east. To the north, Pitt Lake is the largest fresh water tidal lake in the world, connected by the Pitt River to the Fraser River, which is the southern boundary of Pitt Meadows. The Pitt River  flows backwards at high tide and has created a delta where it joins the lake. The northern sector of the flood plain, closest to Pitt Lake, is largely a Peat bog including a large wildlife refuge. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Pitt Meadows real estate for sale at this link <b>  <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/pittmeadowsrealestate.htm">Pitt Meadows Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b>Port Coquitlam</b> is a city in British Columbia. Located 27 km east of  Vancouver, it sits at the confluence of the  Fraser River  and the Pitt River. Coquitlam borders it on the north, the Coquitlam River borders it on the west, and the cities of Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows lie across the Pitt River. Port Coquitlam is almost entirely bisected by a Canadian Pacific Railway yard with two underpass crossings. J im and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Port Coquitlam real estate for sale at this link <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/pcrealestate.htm">Port Coquitlam Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Port Moody, British Columbia</b> is a small city forming a crescent at the east end of Burrard Inlet in British Columbia, Canada . It is bordered by Coquitlam on the east, and Burnaby on the west. The villages of Belcarra, and Anmore along with the rugged Coast Mountains lie to the northwest and north respectively. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Port Moody real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/pmrealestate.htm"> Port Moody Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper6"> <div id="column-content6"> <div id="content6"> <div id="bodyContent6"> <b>Richmond, British Columbia </b>is a city within the Greater Vancouver District. Richmond has a visible minority population of 59%, the highest in Canada. More than half of its population is of Asian descent, most of whom immigrated in the early 1990, many of them from Hong Kong and  Mainland China. Other Asian Canadians in Richmond include Taiwanese Canadians and Japanese Canadians, who have a long history in Steveston dating back to the 1800s. Their community was devastated in 1942 when Japanese Canadians were "relocated" to internment camps in the BC Interior and Alberta and their property was auctioned off during World War II. Richmond is also home to one of the largest Buddhist temples in North America, the Lingyen Mountain buddhist Temple. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Richmond real estate for sale at this link  <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/richrealestate.htm"> Richmond Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="globalWrapper14"> <div id="column-content14"> <div id="content14"> <div id="bodyContent14">  <p><b>Squamish</b> is a community in the Canadian province of British Columbia, located at the north end of Howe Sound on the Sea To sky Highway.Squamish is also the name of the First Nations people who have inhabited at this part of southwest BC (including North and West Vancouver) since before the time of contact with Europeans. The meaning is "mother of wind", pertaining to the intense winds that blow through the valley. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Squamash real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/sqrealestate.htm"> Squamish Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper15"> <div id="column-content15"> <div id="content15"> <div id="bodyContent15"> <div id="globalWrapper16"> <div id="column-content16"> <div id="content16"> <div id="bodyContent16"> <b>Surrey</b> is a Canadian city in the province of British Columbia that is within the Greater Vancouver District, and geographically it is at the centre of the larger region known as the Lower Mainland of BC. Surrey was incorporated in 1879. When Englishman H.J. Brewer looked across the Fraser River from New Westminster and saw a land reminiscent of his native County of Surrey  in England, the modern city of Surrey was born. The area then comprised forests of Douglas fir, fir, red cedar, hemlock, blackberry bushes, and cranberry bogs. A portion of present-day Whalley (named after Harry Whalley, who owned and operated a gas bar at the bend in King George Highway at 108th, "Whalley's Corner") was used as a burial ground by the Kwantlen (or Qw�ontl�en) Nation. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Surrey real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/surreyrealestate.htm"> Surrey Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p> The <b> Sunshine Coast</b> is a region of the southern mainland coast of British Columbia, on the eastern shore of the Strait of Georgia and just northwest of Greater Vancouver. It is generally considered to encompass the coastal areas of the regional district of Sunshine CoastWhile populous and frequently visited by tourists, it can be reached by land vehicles only using a ferry�because of the steep terrain, no access roads have been built from the rest of the province. The area around nearby Powell River, also on the mainland and inaccessible by road, is sometimes considered part of the Sunshine Coast, while many people use the name to refer only to the Sechelt Peninsula. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Sunshine Coast real estate for sale at this link <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/sunrealestate.htm"> Sunshine Coast Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <p><b> Tsawassen </b>is a Canadian city in the Province of British Columbia.  . The city is surrounded by mountains and has many parks nearby . There are many recreational opportunities in the area, including hiking, biking, camping, fishing, and golf. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Tsawassen real estate for sale at this link  <b> <a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/twasrealestate.htm"> Tsawassen Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper17"> <div id="column-content17"> <div id="content17"> <div id="bodyContent17"> <b>Vancouver</b>  is a city in southwestern British Columbia. The city is named after Captain George Vancouver, an English explorer. A resident of Vancouver is called a "Vancouverite." Vancouver is part of the Greater Vancouver regional district. With a population of 2,208,300 (2005 estimate), it is the largest metropolitan area in western Canada and the Third largest in the country.The population of Vancouver proper is 583,267. Vancouver has a very ethnically diverse population: more than half of its residents have a mother tongue other than English.The city is growing rapidly, and the metropolitan population is projected to reach 2.6 million by 2020. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Vancouver real estate for sale at this link  <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/vanwsrealestate.htm">Vancouver West Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><div id="globalWrapper18"> <div id="column-content18"> <div id="content18"> <div id="bodyContent18">  <p><b>West Vancouver, </b>The Municipality of West Vancouver was incorporated on March 15, 1912, after separating from the District of North Vancouver. The first municipal election was held on April 6, 1912. In November of 1938, the Lion's Gate Bridge was opened to traffic, allowing extensive growth of the semi-populated community, only previously accessible by ferry. Some homes in West Vancouver date back to the 1920s and 30s, though most of the currently existing dwellings were built in the 1970s and 80s, and mostly in British Pacific Properties' developments. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have West Vancouver real estate for sale at this link <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/westvrealestate.htm">West Vancouver</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b></p> <div id="globalWrapper13"> <div id="column-content13"> <div id="content13"> <div id="bodyContent13"> <b>Whistler</b>, British Columbia is a Canadian Resort town incorporated as a resort municipality, with a permanent population of approximately 9,965. Over two million people visit Whistler annually, primarily for its world-famous snow skiing and mountain biking at Whistler-Blackcomb. Whistler is located on Highway 99 approximately 44 kilometers north of Squamish Its pedestrian village has won numerous design awards and Whistler has been voted among the top destinations in North America by major ski magazines for the past 15 years. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Whistler real estate for sale at this link. <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/whistrealestate.htm">Whistler Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p><b>White Rock</b> is located in the southwest corner of the Lower Mainland of British Colombia Canada forty-five kilometers from Vancouver and is flanked on the south by the Canada/US border and Blaine, Washington It is a seaside community clustered around an eight kilometer sandy beach and the warm shallow waters of Semiahmoo Bay. It is famous for its 1,500 ft. long pier, its 2.5km long beach promenade, and of course the large white rock. Jim and Joyce Williams of Re/max have Whistler real estate for sale at this link <b><a target="right" href="http://www.vancouverhousehunting.com/whiterrealestate.htm">White Rock Real Estate</a> homes for for sale including houses, apartments, condo's, acreages and luxury homes.</b><p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">False Creek</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a short inlet in the heart of <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>. It separates downtown from the rest of the city. It was named by <a title="George Henry Richards" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Richards"><span style="color:black">George Henry Richards</span></a> during his Hydrographic survey of 1856-63. <a title="Science World" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_World"><span style="color:black">Science World</span></a> is located at its eastern end and the <a title="Burrard Street Bridge" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Street_Bridge"><span style="color:black">Burrard Street Bridge</span></a> crosses its western end. False Creek is also spanned by the <a title="Granville Street Bridge" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street_Bridge"><span style="color:black">Granville Street</span></a> and <a title="Cambie Street Bridge" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambie_Street_Bridge"><span style="color:black">Cambie Street</span></a> bridges.During <a title="World War I" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I"><span style="color:black">World War I</span></a>, the easternmost part of False Creek, which formerly ran to Clark Drive, was filled in by the <a title="Great Northern Railway (U.S.)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.%2529"><span style="color:black">Great Northern Railway</span></a> and <a title="Canadian Northern Pacific Railway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Northern_Pacific_Railway"><span style="color:black">Canadian Northern Pacific Railway</span></a> to create new land for their yards and terminals. Talk of draining and filling the inlet to <a title="Granville Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street"><span style="color:black">Granville Street</span></a> continued into the 1950s, but that never occurred.False Creek was the industrial heartland of Vancouver through to the 1950s. It was home to many sawmills and small port operations, as well as the <a title="Pacific Central Station (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Central_Station_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">western terminus</span></a> of the major Canadian railways.As industry shifted to other areas, the vicinity around False Creek started to deteriorate. However, the area began to experience rejuvenation starting in the <a title="1970s" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s"><span style="color:black">1970s</span></a>, with the first changes taking place on <a title="Granville Island" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Island"><span style="color:black">Granville Island</span></a>. Large areas of mixed-income housing, including <a title="Co-operative housing" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Co-operative_housing"><span style="color:black">co-op housing</span></a>, on the south shore have also been developed.False Creek was further transformed in the 1980s, as it took centre stage during <a title="Expo 86" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_86"><span style="color:black">Expo 86</span></a>. Since then, most of the north shore has become a new neighborhood of very dense housing, adding about 50,000 new residents to Vancouver's downtown peninsula. <b>False Creek real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Kitsilano</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is bordered to the north by two beaches, <a title="Kitsilano Beach" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano_Beach"><span style="color:black">Kitsilano Beach</span></a> and <a title="Jericho Beach" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_Beach"><span style="color:black">Jericho Beach</span></a> on the shores of <a title="English Bay, Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Bay,_Vancouver"><span style="color:black">English Bay</span></a> and extends south to 16th Avenue. It is bordered on the east by <a title="Burrard Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Street"><span style="color:black">Burrard Street</span></a> and on the west by Alma Street.In addition to its residential areas and beaches, Kitsilano is home to two distinct commercial strips with shops, restaurants and other services. The first is along West 4th Avenue between <a title="Burrard Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Street"><span style="color:black">Burrard</span></a> and Balsam Streets, while the other, sometimes known as West Kitsilano, is located along <a title="Broadway (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">West Broadway</span></a> between Macdonald and Alma Streets. As of <a title="2006" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006"><span style="color:black">2006</span></a>, Kitsilano is situated mostly within the Canadian federal electoral district of <a title="Vancouver Quadra" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Quadra"><span style="color:black">Vancouver Quadra</span></a> (the easternmost part of Kitsilano lies within the electoral district of <a title="Vancouver Centre" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Centre"><span style="color:black">Vancouver Centre</span></a>). Provincially, Kitsilano lies within the B.C. electoral districts of <a title="Vancouver-Point Grey" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver-Point_Grey"><span style="color:black">Vancouver-Point Grey</span></a> and <a title="Vancouver-Fairview" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver-Fairview"><span style="color:black">Vancouver-Fairview</span></a>. <b>Kitsilano</b> <b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Gastown</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is an area of <a title="Vancouver, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Vancouver, British Columbia</span></a>, located between Downtown and the <a title="Downtown Eastside" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside"><span style="color:black">Downtown Eastside</span></a>. Its historical boundaries were the waterfront (now Water Street and the CPR tracks), Columbia Street, Hastings Street, and Cambie Street, which were the borders of the first townsite survey, the proper name and postal address of which was Granville, B.I. ("Burrard Inlet"). Today's official boundary does not include most of Hastings Street except for the <a title="Woodward's" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodward's"><span style="color:black">Woodward's</span></a> and <a title="Dominion Building" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Building"><span style="color:black">Dominion Buildings</span></a>.Gastown is a mix of tourist-oriented business (generally restricted to Water Street), restaurants, nightclubs, poverty and newly-upscale housing. In addition, there are law firms, architects and other professional offices, as well as computer and internet businesses, art galleries, music and art studios, and acting and film schools.</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black">Gastown's most famous (though nowhere near oldest) landmark is its <a title="Steam clock" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_clock"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">steam-powered clock</span></a>, located on the corner of Cambie and Water Street. Long powered by electricity after its previous breakdown the steam mechanism has been completely restored with the financial support of local businesses. The steam used is low pressure district heating steam that powers a miniature steam engine in its base, in turn driving a chain lift. The chain lift moves steel balls upward, where they are unloaded and roll to a descending chain. The weight of the balls on the descending chain drives a conventional pendulum clock escapement, geared to the hands on the four faces. The steam also powers the clock's sound production as <a title="Whistle" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistle"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">whistles</span></a> are used instead of <a title="Bell (instrument)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_(instrument%2529"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">bells</span></a> to produce the <a title="Westminster Quarters" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Quarters"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">Westminster "chime"</span></a> and to signal the time.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black">This restored <a title="Steam clock" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_clock"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black">steam clock</span></a> entertains tourists</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Gastown retains few vestiges of its 1970s role as "<a title="Haight-Ashbury" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haight-Ashbury"><span style="color:black">Haight-Ashbury</span></a> North".<sup><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since February 2007">[<i><a title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed"><span style="color:black">citation needed</span></a></i>]</span></sup>, with the area now mostly coffee shops, galleries, native art and import stores, restaurants and nightclubs. With the hippie and stoner types no longer frequenting this part of town, hipsters are now taking their place frequenting many establishments, and positioning this area to be the successor to Yaletown, with its large amount of high-priced condo stock.Popular annual events that take place on the <a title="Cobblestone" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobblestone"><span style="color:black">cobblestone</span></a> streets of Gastown include the <a title="Vancouver International Jazz Festival" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Jazz_Festival"><span style="color:black">Vancouver International Jazz Festival</span></a> and the <a title="Tour de Gastown" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tour_de_Gastown&action=edit"><span style="color:black">Tour de Gastown</span></a> international bicycle race. <b>Gastown real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Chinatown</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> in <a title="Vancouver, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Vancouver, British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color:black">Canada</span></a>, is one of the largest Chinatowns in <a title="North America" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America"><span style="color:black">North America</span></a>. Its location is centred on Pender Street. It is surrounded by <a title="Gastown" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastown"><span style="color:black">Gastown</span></a> and the <a title="Downtown (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Downtown</span></a> Financial and Central Business Districts to the west, remnants of old <a title="Japantown, Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japantown,_Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Japantown</span></a> and the <a title="Downtown Eastside" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Eastside"><span style="color:black">Downtown Eastside</span></a> to the north and the residential neighbourhood of <a title="Strathcona (Vancouver neighbourhood)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strathcona_(Vancouver_neighbourhood%2529"><span style="color:black">Strathcona</span></a> to the east. The approximate street borders of Chinatown's commercial area are Hastings, Georgia, Gore, and Taylor Streets, although its boundaries extend well into the residential area south of the Downtown Eastside. <a title="Main Street (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Main</span></a>, Pender, and Keefer Streets are the principal areas of commercial activity.Due to the large ethnic Chinese presence in Vancouver�especially represented by multi-generation <a title="Chinese Canadian" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Canadian"><span style="color:black">Chinese Canadians</span></a> and first-generation immigrants from Hong Kong, the city has been referred to as <b>Hongcouver</b> (a term considered derogatory by some). Chinatown remains a popular <a title="Tourist attraction" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourist_attraction"><span style="color:black">tourist attraction</span></a>, but was more recently overshadowed by the newer <a title="Asian people" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_people"><span style="color:black">Asian</span></a> immigrant business district along No. 3 Road in the Vancouver suburb of <a title="Richmond, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Richmond</span></a>. Many affluent <a title="Hong Kong" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong"><span style="color:black">Hong Kong</span></a> and <a title="Taiwan" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan"><span style="color: black">Taiwanese</span></a> immigrants have moved there since the late 1980s, coinciding with the increase of Chinese-ethnic retail and restaurants in that area. This new area is designated the "<a title="Golden Village (Richmond, British Columbia)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Village_(Richmond,_British_Columbia%2529"><span style="color:black">Golden Village</span></a>" by Tourism Richmond.Vancouver's Chinatown is one of the largest historic Chinatowns in North America. However, it went into decline as newer members of Vancouver's Cantonese Chinese community founded a new retail area centred around Victoria and 41st Ave in the 1980s and 90s to cater to a more suburban population. Today this is the largest Chinese Canadian neighbourhood in greater Vancouver.Chinatown was once known for its neon signs but like the rest of the city lost many of the spectacular signs to changing times and a new sign bylaw passed in 1974. The last of the spectaculars was the Ho Ho sign (which showed a rice bowl and chop sticks) which was removed in 1997. Ongoing efforts at revitalization include efforts by the business community to improve safety by hiring private security; looking at new marketing promotions and introducing residential units into the neighbourhood by restoring and renovating some of the heritage buildings. Current focus is on the restoration and adaptive reuse of the distinctive Association buildings<b>. Chinatown</b> <b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Belcarra, British Columbia</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">, also known as <b>Belcarra Bay</b>, is a small community on the shore of <a title="Burrard Inlet" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet"><span style="color:black">Burrard Inlet</span></a>, and is part of the <a title="Greater Vancouver Regional District" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver_Regional_District"><span style="color:black">Greater Vancouver Regional District</span></a>. It lies northwest of <a title="Port Moody" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Moody"><span style="color:black">Port Moody</span></a> and immediately east of the <a title="Deep Cove" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Cove"><span style="color:black">Deep Cove</span></a> area of <a title="North Vancouver, British Columbia (District)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver,_British_Columbia_(District%2529"><span style="color:black">North Vancouver</span></a>, across the waters of Indian Arm. Isolated by geography on a narrow peninsula, Belcarra is accessible by a single winding paved road or by water.It is largely a residential bedroom community for <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a> and its suburbs. Belcarra is the only community in this area that is not growing substantially. Even neighbouring <a title="Anmore, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anmore,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Anmore</span></a>, another tiny community has grown and changed, but Belcarra has not. With a population of 682 as of 2001, it has the lowest population of any independent settlement in the Vancouver area. Ralph Drew has won the last two municipal elections by acclamation and retained his mayorship. Many residents in Belcarra have boats with docks, and even houses that are not on the water are sometimes able to procure a shared dock. <a title="Belcarra Regional Park" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belcarra_Regional_Park"><span style="color:black">Belcarra Regional Park</span></a> winds its way through the village. <b>Belcarra real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Deep Cove</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> refers to the <a title="Fjord" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fjord"><span style="color:black">fjord</span></a> and a neighbourhood in the easternmost part of the <a title="North Vancouver, British Columbia (district municipality)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver,_British_Columbia_(district_municipality%2529"><span style="color:black">District of North Vancouver</span></a>, in <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color: black">Canada</span></a>. Located at the foot of <a title="Mount Seymour" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Seymour"><span style="color:black">Mount Seymour</span></a>, The cove faces due east, fronting on to <a title="Indian Arm" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arm"><span style="color:black">Indian Arm</span></a>, itself a branch of <a title="Burrard Inlet" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet"><span style="color:black">Burrard Inlet</span></a>, which forms <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>'s inner harbour. The area is the traditional territory of the <a title="Tsleil-Waututh First Nation" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsleil-Waututh_First_Nation"><span style="color:black">Tsleil-Waututh</span></a> and <a title="Sḵwxw�7mesh" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sḵwxw�7mesh"><span style="color:black">S</span><span style="font-family: Tahoma;color:black">ḵ</span><span style="color:black">wxw�7mesh</span></a>, the <a title="Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Pacific_Northwest_Coast"><span style="color:black">Indigenous</span></a>, of the <a title="Coast Salish" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Salish"><span style="color:black">Coast Salish</span></a> <a title="First Nations" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations"><span style="color:black">First Nations</span></a>. Deep Cove is 13 kilometres (8 miles) from downtown Vancouver.Deep Cove, or Deepwater as it was first known, is located in the traditional clamming and fishing area of the Squamish Salish native nation who lived and still live in the area for thousands of years. Spanish and English Naval explorers scouted the arm in the eighteen century, and by the mid-nineteenth whales were being caught and flensed on the Cove's shores. Deep Cove became a popular summer resort for Vancouver residents in the 1910s, with cabins, <a title="Logging" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logging"><span style="color:black">logging</span></a> and <a title="Granite" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granite"><span style="color:black">granite</span></a> quarrying featuring in the local history. For many years, the focal point of the community included a <a title="Yacht club" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yacht_club"><span style="color:black">yacht club</span></a>, dance hall and general store. Also, the Baden Powell Trail leading up to the look out point, Quarry rock, has become a hot spot to visitors. It's packed in the summers.The population slowly grew in the 1960s and 1970s, when access to the area improved following the completion of the <a title="Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironworkers_Memorial_Second_Narrows_Crossing"><span style="color:black">Second Narrows Bridge</span></a> to Vancouver in <a title="1960" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960"><span style="color:black">1960</span></a>. However, Deep Cove held on to its rural feel, and a large, open horse paddock sat adjacent to Gallant Avenue in this period. Today, the Cove remains a popular attraction in the district, and residents from neighbouring Cove Cliff, Dollarton, Parkgate, <a title="Indian Arm" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arm"><span style="color:black">Indian Arm</span></a> and Woodlands areas like to call it home too.</span><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-weight: 700">Deep Cove </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Mount Seymour</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a mountain located in <a title="Mount Seymour Provincial Park" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Seymour_Provincial_Park"><span style="color:black">Mount Seymour Provincial Park</span></a> in the <a title="North Vancouver, British Columbia (district municipality)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Vancouver,_British_Columbia_(district_municipality%2529"><span style="color:black">District of North Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>. It is a part of the <a title="North Shore Mountains" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Shore_Mountains"><span style="color:black">North Shore Mountains</span></a>, rising to the north from the shores of <a title="Burrard Inlet" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet"><span style="color:black">Burrard Inlet</span></a> and <a title="Indian Arm" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Arm"><span style="color:black">Indian Arm</span></a> to a summit of 1449 metres above the Indian River and <a title="Deep Cove, North Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Cove,_North_Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Deep Cove</span></a> neighbourhoods. Mount Seymour is most commonly identified for its <a title="Ski area" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_area"><span style="color:black">ski area</span></a> of the same name. It is named in honour of <a title="Frederick Seymour" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Seymour"><span style="color:black">Frederick Seymour</span></a>, first governor of the <a title="Colony of British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_of_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Colony of British Columbia</span></a>.The mountain opened for skiing in <a title="1937" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1937"><span style="color:black">1937</span></a> under the ownership of Harold Enquist, with a cafeteria and ski rental. A few years later, in <a title="1949" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1949"><span style="color:black">1949</span></a>, the Government of <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a> bought the ski area. The Government did not have the experience to run a <a title="Ski area" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski_area"><span style="color:black">ski area</span></a>, so, they issued Mr. Enquist the first Park Use Permit to operate the area. When the permit expired in <a title="1951" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951"><span style="color:black">1951</span></a>, the government found a concessionaire, who was put in charge of running the lifts, ski school and cafeteria. The government retained overall ownership until <a title="1984" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984"><span style="color:black">1984</span></a>, when it privatized its operation as part of a cost cutting measure. <b>Mount Seymour real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <div id="globalWrapper19"> <div id="column-content19"> <div id="content19"> <div id="bodyContent19"> <b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">North Vancouver-Lonsdale</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a <a title="Provinces and territories of Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_and_territories_of_Canada"><span style="color:black">provincial</span></a> <a title="Electoral district" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_district"><span style="color:black">electoral district</span></a> for the <a title="Legislative Assembly of British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Legislative Assembly</span></a> of <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color:black">Canada</span></a>. For other current and historical North Shore and City of Vancouver ridings, please see <a title="Vancouver (electoral districts)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_(electoral_districts%2529"><span style="color:black">Vancouver (electoral districts)</span></a><font color="#000000"> <b>Lonsdale </b></font><b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span><p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN">Strathcona</span></b><span lang="EN" style="color: black"> <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Vancouver</span></a>'s East End is one of the oldest residential neighbourhoods in Vancouver, British Columbia and is bordered by Chinatown to the West, Clark Drive to the East, Hastings Street on the North, and <a title="Canadian National Railway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_National_Railway"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family: Arial;color:black">Canadian National Railway</span></a> and <a title="Great Northern Railway (U.S.)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_Railway_(U.S.%2529"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family: Arial;color:black">Great Northern Railway</span></a> (now <a title="BNSF Railway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNSF_Railway"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">BNSF Railway</span></a>) <a title="Classification yard" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_yard"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">classification yards</span></a> to the south.Over 8,000 people now live in Strathcona, which grew during the city's boom years between the city's founding in <a title="1886" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1886"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1886</span></a> and <a title="1920" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">1920</span></a> due in large part to the choice of early <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Vancouver</span></a> as a railway terminus. It emerged from the original settlement that grew around <a title="Hastings Mill" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hastings_Mill"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Hastings Mill</span></a>. It has always been a <a title="Working class" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_class"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">working class</span></a> neighborhood and has always been comprised of people from many ethnic backgrounds. It is the only neighbourhood where <a title="English language" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial; color:black">English</span></a> is not the most commonly spoken language, with 61% of residents reporting <a title="Chinese language" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Chinese</span></a> as their mother tongue, followed by English at 24%.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt; color: black">A Buddhist temple in Strathcona</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> The neighbourhood was earmarked for demolition in the <a title="1950s" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950s"><span style="color:black">1950s</span></a> as part of an <a title="Urban renewal" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_renewal"><span style="color:black">urban renewal</span></a> program. Strathcona would have been transformed into "block upon block of identical apartments buildings and townhouses" for <a title="Social housing" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_housing"><span style="color:black">social housing</span></a>. The redevelopment plans proceeded with the construction of the McLean Park housing development between Union, Dunlevy Gore and Jackson and Stamp's Place on Campbell between Hastings Union and Raymur some 15 blocks of the neighbourhood were bulldozed including <a title="Hogan's Alley (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan's_Alley_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Hogan's Alley</span></a>, the only area with a concentration of blacks in Vancouver. Development was stopped due to opposition from the community, led by residents such as <a title="Mary Lee Chan" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Lee_Chan"><span style="color:black">Mary Lee Chan</span></a> who banded together to form the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association (SPOTA). Important municipal figures such as mayor <a title="Mike Harcourt" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Harcourt"><span style="color:black">Mike Harcourt</span></a> and the TEAM and later <a title="Coalition of Progressive Electors" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_Progressive_Electors"><span style="color:black">COPE</span></a> party emerged from this movement.Just as the neighbourhood organisers were making headway at preserving the neighbourhood City engineers were proposed putting a <a title="Freeway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeway"><span style="color:black">freeway</span></a> through the southern part of the neighbourhood which would have connected to a proposed waterfront route. The connectors along Gore and Carrall Streets, would have partially destroyed <a title="Chinatown (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Chinatown</span></a> and <a title="Gastown" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastown"><span style="color:black">Gastown</span></a>.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Houses smartly re-finished in Victorian style are next to some that are not as fancy</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> In recent years, Strathcona has been subjected to a significant <a title="Gentrification" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification"><span style="color:black">gentrification</span></a> process, reinforcing the economic disparity of the area. The late 19th and early 20th century <a title="Architecture" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture"><span style="color:black">architecture</span></a> in the area is a relative rarity in Vancouver and many houses in Strathcona are designated heritage houses. This housing stock in particular is being <a title="Renovation" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renovation"><span style="color:black">renovated</span></a>, thus raising property values and attracting wealthier home owners to the area. <b>Strathona real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">The <b>Downtown Eastside</b> <b>Hastings</b> is the oldest neighbourhood in <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color: black">Canada</span></a>. The neighbourhood has a rich and colourful history and a strong community fabric. There are many conflicting definitions of its perimeter but it can generally be viewed as being bordered by Cambie Street to the west, Clark Drive to the east, the waterfront to the north and Venables Street/Prior Avenue to the south, with Hastings Street running down the middle of the neighbourhood. Once the core shopping district in the city, many of the retail shops that flourished through the early 1980s are now long gone. The area spent some time in limbo but presently buildings are being renewed and many new businesses are engaging the community, taking up the challenge to operate in this sometimes difficult-to-gauge neigbourhood. Used syringes and condoms on neighborhood sidewalks are becoming less common due to the efforts of United We Can a charity organization that offers local people jobs cleaning up the streets each morning. Some <a title="Graffiti" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti"><span style="color:black">Graffiti</span></a> decorates buildings and walls and most DTES alleys are regularly used as makeshift toilet facilities. The area is noted for high incidences of poverty, drug addiction, prostitution, some violent crime, as well as an ongoing tradition of community activism. In recent years there have been tensions between developers and members of the community relating to <a title="Gentrification" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification"><span style="color:black">gentrification</span></a> development proposals. <b>Downtown Eastside</b> <b>Hastings</b> <b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Grandview-Woodland</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a neighbourhood in <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color: black">Canada</span></a> to the east of the downtown area, stretching south from the shores of <a title="Burrard Inlet" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Inlet"><span style="color:black">Burrard Inlet</span></a> and encompassing portions of the popular <a title="Commercial Drive (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Drive_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Commercial Drive</span></a> area. It is a mature neighbourhood in Vancouver that is a vibrant mixture of commercial, industrial, single-family and multi-family residential with a rich ethnic history and features.A central part of the Vancouver area, Grandview-Woodland runs from the south shore of busy Burrard Inlet south to <a title="Broadway (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Broadway</span></a>, one of the city's major east-west roads. The western border of the neighbourhood is Clark Drive, the eastern Nanaimo Street. It is a busy area for transportation, with Hastings Street and First Avenue both cutting through the neighbourhood, while Victoria Drive and Commercial Drive both run north-south through the area. Much of the neighbourhood is built on the rise that stretches east-west through the eastern portion of Vancouver, making for views across the city proper and the inlet. Local <a title="First Nations" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations"><span style="color:black">First Nations</span></a> members have been aware of the Grandview-Woodland area for many years, and referred to the area along Burrard Inlet by the word for <a title="Western Redcedar" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Redcedar"><span style="color:black">cedar trees</span></a> in their language. A small cove created by a stream running into the inlet became a focal point for early development; the first building was a brewery, followed by sawmills using the forests of the area. The land along Burrard Inlet was valued by speculators after the <a title="Gold Rush" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Rush"><span style="color:black">Gold Rush</span></a>, and was the location of the <a title="Canadian Pacific Railway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Pacific_Railway"><span style="color:black">Canadian Pacific Railway</span></a> when it was built in the 1880s. Around that time, the sawmill owners clearcut the entire Grandview-Woodland area, and the construction of the <a title="Interurban" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interurban"><span style="color:black">Interurban</span></a> train line to <a title="New Westminster, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Westminster,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">New Westminster</span></a> in 1891 spurred the construction of a new community in the area. One legend indicates that the name Grand View was first expressed on a sign hung by a homeowner next to the Interurban stop near the Commercial Drive-1st Avenue intersection.In 1906, construction started to boom, with homes being built through the neighbourhood, and the railway influencing industrial development along the waterfront. Park Drive became a major commercial route that eventually became Commercial Drive, and people of many ethnic backgrounds made the neighbourhood their home over the years. <b>Grandview-Woodland real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN">Broadway</span></b><span lang="EN"> <span style="color:black">is a major east-west thoroughfare in the city of <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="font-size:12.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">Canada</span></a>. In Vancouver's numbered avenue grid system, it runs in place of a 9th Avenue, between 8th and 10th. The street has four lanes for most of its course.</span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">The route begins as "West Broadway" at the intersection of Wallace Crescent and 8th Avenue, in an affluent residential neighbourhood of <a title="West Point Grey" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Point_Grey"><span style="color:black">West Point Grey</span></a>, a few kilometres east of the <a title="University of British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">University of British Columbia</span></a>. Past Alma Street, Broadway enters the <a title="Greektown (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greektown_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Greektown</span></a> section of Vancouver's <a title="Kitsilano" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano"><span style="color:black">Kitsilano</span></a> district. East of here are several blocks of generally trendy, upscale shops interspersed with low-rise apartment blocks and small supermarkets. The surrounding neighbourhoods generally consist of large, older homes dating from the early twentienth century, many of which have been subdivided into rental suites.As Broadway approaches Arbutus Street, the commercial establishments become larger before transitioning into a mix of small to mid-size apartment blocks. East of <a title="Burrard Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrard_Street"><span style="color:black">Burrard Street</span></a>, the apartment blocks get progressively taller, and commercial establishments larger and busier. Between Burrard and <a title="Main Street (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Main Street</span></a>, Broadway can be considerably congested by vehicular traffic. Past <a title="Granville Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street"><span style="color:black">Granville Street</span></a>, Broadway becomes coterminous with <a title="British Columbia Highway 7" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia_Highway_7"><span style="color:black">Highway 7</span></a> and yields completely to medium-to-large commercial structures and high-rise apartments and condominiums. Between <a title="Cambie Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambie_Street"><span style="color:black">Cambie</span></a> and Main, the commercial establishments become smaller and somewhat more downscale. At Ontario Street, two blocks west of Main, the route becomes "East Broadway." After bisecting Main and <a title="Kingsway (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsway_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">Kingsway</span></a>, traffic on Broadway eases somewhat, and the character returns to a mix of small-to-medium apartment buildings and commercial establishments, interspersed with older homes - all considerably less affluent than those to the west. At <a title="Commercial Drive" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Drive"><span style="color:black">Commercial Drive</span></a>, Broadway passes under the <a title="Broadway Station" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Station"><span style="color:black">Broadway</span></a> and the <a title="Commercial Drive Station" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Drive_Station"><span style="color:black">Commercial</span></a> SkyTrain Stations. Past here for several blocks, the neighbourhood consists predominantly of older residential homes. As Broadway travels east of Renfrew Street, the neighbourhood once again becomes mixed, with older homes to the north and larger industrial, commercial, and warehouse establishments to the south. Broadway finally ends at Rupert Street, just short of the Vancouver-<a title="Burnaby, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Burnaby</span></a> boundary, where it becomes the <a title="Lougheed Highway" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lougheed_Highway"><span style="color:black">Lougheed Highway</span></a>. </span><b><span lang="EN">Broadway </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Metro Vancouver</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">, legally the <b>Greater Vancouver Regional District</b>, is the inter-municipal body, or <a title="Regional districts of British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_districts_of_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">regional district</span></a>, charged with certain aspects of governance for the <a title="Metropolitan area" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_area"><span style="color:black">metropolitan area</span></a> surrounding and including the city of <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color: black">Canada</span></a>. The territory under Metro Vancouver's authority is essentially synonymous with what is usually meant by the colloquial term <b>Greater Vancouver</b>, and <a title="Statistics Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics_Canada"><span style="color:black">Statistics Canada</span></a> defines the <b>Vancouver CMA</b> (<a title="Census Metropolitan Area" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census_Metropolitan_Area"><span style="color:black">Census Metropolitan Area</span></a>) as having perfectly coterminal boundaries with Metro Vancouver. Although the region's principal city is Vancouver, its seat is in the suburb of <a title="Burnaby, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnaby,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Burnaby</span></a>.The Greater Vancouver Regional District was formed in 1967, following the creation of Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District (GVSDD) in 1914 and Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) in 1926. In 2007, the GVRD board unanimously supported a proposal to the provincial government to change its official name to Metro Vancouver and the new name took effect in September 2007. The body's <a title="Letters patent" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_patent"><span style="color:black">letters patent</span></a> have yet to be amended.</span><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Metro Vancouver </span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"><b>real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">The <b>Canada Line</b>, formerly known as the <b>Richmond-Airport-Vancouver Line</b> ("RAV Line") , is a new <a title="Rapid transit" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit"><span style="color:black">rapid transit</span></a> line of the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority (<a title="TransLink (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransLink_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">TransLink</span></a>) currently under construction. The line is being built and will be operated by <a title="SNC-Lavalin" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNC-Lavalin"><span style="color:black">SNC-Lavalin</span></a>, for 35 years. The line will be the third in <a title="Greater Vancouver Regional District" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_Vancouver_Regional_District"><span style="color:black">Greater Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color:black">Canada</span></a>, though it will not use <a title="Linear induction motor" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_induction_motor"><span style="color:black">linear induction motor</span></a> technology as the existing <a title="SkyTrain (Vancouver)" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SkyTrain_(Vancouver%2529"><span style="color:black">SkyTrain</span></a> lines do; it is unclear whether it will be branded as a third SkyTrain line. The Canada Line will connect downtown <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a> to the <a title="Vancouver International Airport" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_International_Airport"><span style="color:black">Vancouver International Airport</span></a> and <a title="Richmond, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Richmond</span></a> City Centre in time for the <a title="2010 Winter Olympics" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Winter_Olympics"><span style="color:black">2010 Winter Olympics</span></a>. Governance of the project is through RAV Project Management (RAVCO) , a subsidiary of TransLink. The line is expected to carry 100,000 passengers per day at launch and 142,000 passengers by 2021. <b>Canada Line real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Oakridge</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a neighbourhood in the City of <a title="Vancouver, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a> that encompasses a thriving multicultural residential and commercial area in the middle of the region, between a number of busy streets and central to all of the features of greater Vancouver. It had a population of 11,795 in <a title="2001" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001"><span style="color:black">2001</span></a>, 50 percent of which claimed <a title="Chinese language" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_language"><span style="color:black">Chinese</span></a> as their mother tongue. Oakridge is generally considered as a rectangular section of Vancouver that is bordered by the major thoroughfare <a title="Granville Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street"><span style="color:black">Granville Street</span></a> on the west and the busy multicultural route of Main Street on the east. West 41st Avenue marks the north border, with West 57th Avenue as the southern edge of the neighbourhood. Oak Street and <a title="Cambie Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambie_Street"><span style="color:black">Cambie Street</span></a>, both among Vancouver's busiest roads, also run north-south through Oakridge, making for plenty of traffic during morning and evening rush hours. In total, Oakridge encompasses 401 hectares. <b>Oakridge real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Kerrisdale</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a neighbourhood in the city of <a title="Vancouver, British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver,_British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">Vancouver, British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color:black">Canada</span></a>. Kerrisdale is a mixed neighbourhood featuring old bungalows, newer 'Vancouver Specials', and various low and mid-rise rental and condo apartment buildings. The neighbourhood is ethnically diverse. It features a small shopping district running generally along W 41st Avenue between Larch and Maple Streets and West Boulevard between 37th and 47th Avenues. Although the City officially defines Kerrisdale as being south of 41st Ave (north of 41st is called <a title="Arbutus Ridge" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbutus_Ridge"><span style="color:black">Arbutus Ridge</span></a>), most people consider the area's boundaries to be W 33rd Ave to the North, <a title="Granville Street" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street"><span style="color:black">Granville Street</span></a> to the East, W. 57th Street to the South, and Blenheim Street to the West. The Northern part of Marpole is also generally thought of as part of Kerrisdale, thus many refer to the area as also Kerrisdale-Marpole The southwestern part of Kerrisdale is known as <a title="Dunbar-Southlands" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar-Southlands"><span style="color:black">Southlands</span></a>, due to its location in relation to the city. Southlands is known for its horse <a title="Stable" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable"><span style="color: black">stables</span></a> and rural feel. Kerrisdale gained its name in <a title="1905" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905"><span style="color:black">1905</span></a> when a settler named Mrs. McKinnon dubbed the 41st Avenue (then Wilson Road) and West Boulevard tram stop "Kerry's Dale", after the name of her family home, Kerrydale, in <a title="Gairloch" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gairloch"><span style="color:black">Gairloch</span></a>, <a title="Scotland" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland"><span style="color:black">Scotland</span></a>. The area was part of the municipality of Point Grey, which amalgamated in <a title="1929" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929"><span style="color:black">1929</span></a> with the City of <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>. Many of the streets and avenues surrounding this focal intersection developed around this time, with local landmarks such as <a title="Point Grey Secondary School" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Grey_Secondary_School"><span style="color:black">Point Grey Secondary School</span></a>, <a title="Ryerson Church" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ryerson_Church&action=edit"><span style="color:black">Ryerson Church</span></a>, and the <a title="Shannon Mansion" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shannon_Mansion&action=edit"><span style="color:black">Shannon Mansion</span></a> constructed in these formative years. <b>Kerrisdale real estate homes for sale including condo�s, apartments, townhouses and houses</b>. </span><span style="color: black"> </span></div> </div> </div> </div> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Granville Island</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black"> is a small island and shopping district in <a title="Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Vancouver</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a>, <a title="Canada" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada"><span style="color: black">Canada</span></a>. It is located in <a title="False Creek" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Creek"><span style="color:black">False Creek</span></a> directly across from <a title="Downtown Vancouver" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downtown_Vancouver"><span style="color:black">Downtown Vancouver</span></a>'s peninsula, under the south end of the <a title="Granville Street Bridge" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Street_Bridge"><span style="color:black">Granville Street Bridge</span></a>.</span></p> <p style="background: #F8FCFF"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: 12.5pt; font-family: Arial; color: black">Granville Island was once an industrial manufacturing area, but is now a major tourist destination, providing amenities such as a <a title="Public market" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_market"><span style="color:black">public market</span></a>, a large <a title="Marina" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina"><span style="color:black">marina</span></a>, a hotel, the <a title="Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Carr_Institute_of_Art_and_Design"><span style="color:black">Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design</span></a> (named in honour of the <a title="Emily Carr" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Carr"><span style="color:black">artist</span></a>), various theatres including one run by <a title="The Arts Club Theatre" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arts_Club_Theatre"><span style="color:black">The Arts Club Theatre</span></a>, and various shopping areas clustered around the one industrial outpost remaining, a cement plant. The island is very popular with tourists and locals alike. Since its redevelopment in the 1970's, Granville Island has maintained a healthy community of craft studios, including a glassblowing studio, a printmaking shop, a luthier, a master shoemaker, various jewellers, and the B.C. Potter's Guild. A weekly farmer's market has also been ongoing since the island's redevelopment.<a title="Granville Island Brewing" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granville_Island_Brewing"><span style="color:black">Granville Island Brewing</span></a> Co. is also the name of a <a title="Beer" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer"><span style="color:black">beer</span></a> company which originated on Granville Island in 1984, but whose main base of operations was moved to <a title="Kelowna" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelowna"><span style="color:black">Kelowna</span></a>, <a title="British Columbia" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia"><span style="color:black">British Columbia</span></a> some time later. It does continue, however, to brew some of its varieties at the original site, and offers beer-tasting tours. In 2004, <a title="Project for Public Spaces" style="color: #002BB8; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none; text-line-through: none" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_Pu